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ˈhonourableness, honor-
[f. prec. adj. + -ness.]
The state or quality of being honourable (in various senses: see the adj.).
1553T. Wilson Rhet. (1580) 35 Fortitude..Of this vertue there are fower braunches, Honourablenesse, Stoutnesse, Sufferaunce, Continuaunce. 1639Fuller Holy War i. viii. (1647) 11 The equitie and honourablenesse of the cause. 1748Richardson Clarissa (1811) III. xvii. 107 The honourableness of my intentions to your dear self. 1872Cassell's Mag. 13 Jan. 309 The payment and receipt of wages, so far from detracting from the honourableness of the relation, places both master and servant on a footing of plain justice. |